Teacher interview questions

Thank you for agreeing to talk to me about PP in English teaching
<Ask some background Qs about
1- how long have you been teaching?
2- What type of EFL teaching? Where?
3- What TEFL training have you had?
Then
A)How do you use power point?
-how regularly? In all lessons/some/ or specific types of lessons?
-How often do you use it?
-What type of lesson or skill?
-How much time in a lesson would be used?
-Do you use the same pp for all classes?

B) About Preparing and sharing
4-How long does it take to prepare?
– Do you use other people's pp and adopt them? or only your own?
– Do you prepare your slides completely yourself or you share preparing with others?
– Do you share it with other teachers?
– Do you give it to students?
– When do you make your PP? Where do you keep it?

C)Beliefs:
-Do you teach them systematically?
-Do select from the slides?
-Or do you use them all? Re-order/ adopt/ expand?

<ask further Qs to get as much detail as possible about different uses, eg :

– What do you think are the advantages of PP? why?

– What do you think of the dangers?
– Have your practices changed over time because of that?
– Anything worries you about PP?
– Do you think your students like PP?
– What do you like in PP? What you don’t?
– To what extent do you think PP now required?
– What do you think are the disadvantages of it?
Why?

– Do you have any problems with PP?
– How do you solve each of those problems?
– Do you use all the facilities in PP, eg to reveal information by degrees on one slide, to display graphics and sound?
Why/not?

Thank you

Students’ questionnaire:
1- How is PP used in your current classes by teachers?
Never seldom quit often very often every class

2- Have you experienced PP as a Teaching method in your English classes before this course?
Never Seldom Quit often A lot

3- Do you think PP is used well in this course?
Yes it is Very helpful sometimes helpful not always helpful I don’t like classes with PP

4- What aspect of good PP used in teaching is important for you? (Put in order, please)
It should be: (What is the priority?)
– Clear
– Easy
– Vivid
– Interesting
– Fun
– flexible
– Made available for revision

5- What problems can be occurred with PP in the current lessons? (Tick √ if anything is true)
– Badly made
– not clear
– Makes the lesson dull
– Teacher uses it too much
– Hard to read
– Reduces students talking time
– Equipment doesn’t work
– Teachers does not share them after
– Other reasons:……

Rate on a scale : True – false
1- PP is a good teaching tool
2- Lessons would be better without PP
3- Teachers need a lot of skill to use PP
4- ……..

Rate on scale: agree- disagree (1-5)
1- Power Point limits the time for students’ talking in the class.
2- Power point makes the class more interactive.
3-